In 2025, the North Korean government increased surveillance, information controls, and restrictions on market activity despite deepening food insecurity and inequality.

North Korea has been confirmed to be preparing for a large-scale military parade ahead of the 9th Workers' Party Congress. In the area around the Mirim Training Ground in eastern Pyongyang, which is ...

The congress could also formalise Kim’s abandonment of Pyongyang’s aspiration to unite the Korean peninsula and his ...

North Korean soldiers were seen practicing marching formations in preparation for a possible parade ahead of the country's ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for an "epochal progress" in the development of rural areas, the North's state ...

Russia has reportedly sent over 100 horses to North Korea's military units, enhancing its elite cavalry formations, according to NK News.

At the initiative of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Korean People's Army provided assistance to the Russian Armed Forces in liberating the Kursk Region from Ukrainian forces ...

Signs are emerging that Pyongyang may be scaling back its support for Moscow.

If there was any opportunity to stop North Korea's march toward nuclear weapons, it was before the 1994 Agreed Framework, not after.

North Korea is expected to convene the 9th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in early to mid-February, a pivotal ...

For the rest of the world, survival with agency — rather than illusions of neutrality — becomes imperative. The international order is not dead. It is adrift. America’s inward turn has loosened the ...

The Republic of Tatarstan has become a key supplier of elite horses for North Korea's ceremonial cavalry regiment, also used by Kim Jong Un.